David Nathan QC

He has extensive experience of dealing with forensic experts, including forensic pathologists, psychiatrists, and accountants, DNA, mobile telephone and cell site, facial mapping, and voice recognition and linguistic experts. Apart from crime, David has also undertaken VAT tribunal work and a fact finding hearing in the Family Division of the High Court.

My work

R v D and Otrs (Northampton Crown Court): acting on behalf of the principal defendant who was acquitted of a fraud on Northamptonshire County Council, cheating the Revenue and money-laundering offences

R v S J and Otrs (Central Criminal Court): one of two brothers who was acquitted in respect of a gang murder where the two principal victims were attacked by pit bulls and stabbed.

R v C H and Otrs (Wood Green Crown Court): representing principal defendant who was acquitted of trafficking prostitutes both from Romania and within the UK, controlling prostitution, and multiple rape on women.

R v T S (Woolwich Crown Court): represented for firearms offences.

R v J and Otrs (Preston Crown Court): represented one of the principal defendants in a gangland murder in which it was alleged that a rival drug dealer was made to drink petrol before being burned to death in a car. The trial was stayed after many months and the Judge ordered an enquiry into the conduct of the police.

R v T W (Central Criminal Court): the first soldier to be tried by a civil court rather than by Court Martial for murdering a civilian in Iraq.

R v N and Otrs (Wolverhampton Crown Court): more than half a ton of cocaine imported from South America where the defence was one of duress from serious criminals originally resident in Southern Spain and later South Africa.

About me

During the 1980s, David led in numerous high-profile and serious cases including two of the trials resulting from the Brinks Matt gold bullion robbery (which were at the time the largest of their kind ever in the UK). David also went on to lead in a number of armed robbery cases involving particular members of the Arif family and their associates. He also represented Ronnie O'Sullivan (the father) for murder.

Then in the 1990s, David led at the Central Criminal Court for Kevin Cressey, charged alongside a police officer with drug and corruption offences in what became known as the Panorama Corruption trial, because the client had gone to the BBC with his story. During the course of that decade, however, most of David's leading work involved the very large importation and supply of Class A and B drugs, serious violence, and fraud, for example, Belchamber and others (Southwark Crown Court) was the alcohol diversion fraud which finally exposed the London City Bond as informants and led to a number of successful appeals in other cases.

David's first case in Silk in 2002 was the defence of a survivor of the Paddington Rail crash who had inflicted multiple stab wounds on a complete stranger and was found to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Since then his cases have involved most aspects of serious crime, including gangland and domestic murder, firearms, armed robbery, drug trafficking, counterfeit steroids, serious sexual offences, fraud, revenue offences and money laundering.

David has extensive experience of dealing with forensic experts, including forensic pathologists, psychiatrists and accountants, DNA, mobile telephone and cell site, facial mapping, and voice recognition and linguistic experts.

Apart from crime, David has also undertaken VAT tribunal work and a fact finding hearing in the Family Division of the High Court.

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